Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University, is a member of a global team of scientists that has been offered a $19.7 million grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. The team is working on devising and deploying novel genetic strategies to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever.
A gene enabling an insect virus to enter new cells was likely stolen from a host cell and adapted for the virus's use, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute report.
Carol Jean Buckley, a student services supervisor in Cornell University's Olin Library and member of the Cornell Savoyards, died at her home on June 24. She was 40.
The historic crescent that frames the eastern side of Schoellkopf Stadium at Cornell University will be closed until Aug. 31 for renovation work. People using the crescent to view fireworks displays will have to arrange for an alternative viewing site.
"I was frightened, and I was devastated," said Burt Neuborne '61, recalling the murder of one of his Cornell classmates, Michael Schwerner '61, and two other civil rights workers at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Several hundred people gathered in Duffield Hall's atrium on campus June 28 to thank President Jeffrey S. Lehman and his wife, Kathy Okun, for two years of service.
The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell University study. (June 27, 2005)
Revisiting a hallowed ritual for doctors, a committee within the Weill Cornell Medical College convened this spring to craft an updated Hippocratic Oath, one that responds to the state of modern medicine. Written in ancient Greece, the oath expresses principles still fundamental to the practice of medicine today. (June 22, 2005)
NEW YORK -- Gladys Rosenthal, a genetic counselor, opened Weill Cornell Medical College's seventh annual Breast Cancer Symposium with the good news that breast cancer is becoming a manageable disease, with new knowledge pointing the way toward a cure.
NEW YORK -- Just a year after groundbreaking ceremonies, the centerpiece of the Weill Cornell Medical College's (WCMC) multimillion-dollar capital campaign was recently "topped out." The Ambulatory Care and Medical Education Building at 1305 York Ave. at 70th Street will house 330,000 square feet of modern, patient-oriented facilities and amenities, including state-of-the art equipment, a comfortable welcome center and several specialty clinical practices for integrated patient care. The building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2006.